MÉRIDA, Mexico – Armed agents of the Nicolás Maduro regime have been besieging the Argentine embassy in Caracas since Friday night, where six campaign advisers of opposition leader María Corina Machado are taking refuge.
The refugees themselves at the embassy They reported the situation on Friday night as a greater number of troops were concentrated at the diplomatic headquarters.
“Today we have completed 170 days isolated and sheltered in the Argentine Embassy that welcomed us on March 20 of this year. Exhausting! In these last 5 hours, patrols, motorcycles and hooded officials have surrounded the facade of the Embassy that has been under the custody of Brazil since August 1,” warned opposition member Magalli Meda in X.
This Saturday morning, Meda showed An image of the security forces surrounding the embassy and assured that they were “with the electricity cut off and the accesses to the headquarters blocked.”
On Friday night, shortly after the news broke, Argentina’s Minister of Security Patricia Bullrich expressed her dismay at the events.
“We are dismayed by what is happening, the possible incursion and takeover of the Argentine embassy, which is currently flying the flag of Brazil. (…). This is a call to the entire international community, to all Venezuelans, to resist this brutality of the absolutely authoritarian and dictatorial regime of Maduro,” commented.
Brazil has been the custodian of the Argentine embassy since August 1, following the country’s severance of relations with Maduro.
This week, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) presented a report to the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), in which it highlighted rapes, repression and deaths in Venezuela after the elections of July 28.
According to the organization Foro Penal, since July 28, the Chavista dictatorship has arrested 1,780 Venezuelans, including 114 minors.
